The official YouTube channel of Twin Engine started streaming the second trailer for The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 anime. The video revealed seven additional cast members and previewed the opening theme song “Dear” by JUNNA. The anime series will start airing in Japan and be streamed on Prime Video on April 6, 2023.
Among the additional cast, Daiki Yamashita is voicing Violet St. George, Minami Tanaka is voicing Jasmine St. George, Mari Uchiyama is voicing May Atwood, and Miki Natsutatni is voicing April Atwood. In addition, Kousuke Toriumi, Mami Koyama, and Sayuri Sadaoka will also join the cast as Narcisse Maugham, Liza Quillyn, and Lizbeth Sargant.
The production work will be handled by Studio Kafka for this season, the same studio in charge of the OVA The Ancient Magus’ Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm, replacing Wit Studio.
▍The Ancient Magus’ Bride Anime Story
Having been ostracized by both her relatives and partially by society, orphaned Japanese high school student Chise Hatori decides to sell herself at an auction in order for somebody else to take her in and have a new place to call home. At the auction in London, she is sold for five million pounds to Elias Ainsworth, a seven-foot-tall humanoid with an animal skull for a head.
The magus, who seems closer to a demon than a human, either brings her the light she desperately seeks or drowns her in ever deeper shadows in her new country, Great Britain. The series deals with a romantic slice-of-life storyline in a surreal and supernatural light.
▍The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 Staff & Production
Original Work: Kore Yamazaki (Serialized in Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Garden)
Director: Kazuaki Terasawa
Script: Aya Takaha, Chiaki Nishinaka, Yoko Yonaiyama
Music: Junichi Matsumoto
Character Design: Hirotaka Katō
Art Director: Seiki Tamura
Chief Animation Director: Kōhei Tokuoka
Sound Director: Shōji Hata
CGI Director: Katsuaki Miyaji
Director of Photography: Mayo Suzuki
Color Design: Yuko Kobari
Editing: Daisuke Imai
Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo
Animation Production: Studio Kafka
▍The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 Cast
■ Lucy Webster – CV: Minami Tsuda
■ Philomela Sergeant – CV: Maki Kawase
■ Zoe Ivy – CV: Daiki Kobayashi
■ Veronica Rickenbacker – CV: Reina Ueda
■ Isaac Farrar – CV: Kotaro Nishiyama
■ Violet St. George – CV: Daiki Yamashita
■ Jasmine St. George – CV: Minami Tanaka
■ May Atwood – CV: Mari Uchiyama
■ April Atwood – CV: Miki Natsutani
■ Narcisse Maugham – CV: Kousuke Toriumi
■ Liza Quillyn – CV: Mami Koyama
■ Lizbeth Sargant – CV: Sayuri Sadaoka